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◀ Volume V	VOLUME VI: MANUSCRIPTS


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Description. Volume VI contains a selection of iconographical subjects represented on illuminated manuscripts: scrolls and codices in a variety of materials (papyrus, vellum, parchment, palm leaf, etc.).

This volume is divided into 6 specialized chapters, based on the type of iconographical subject and the context. Every chapter has a different number of articles (currently none). Each article has a different number of records (currently none). The artefacts are represented by two figures (the primary and secondary) offering a general view and details. The primary figures' thumbnails are placed into the 5 x 6 basic gallery grid which is expanded vertically by adding extra rows when needed. Each primary figure has a unique code, based on a universal formula: N-n-xxx-nnn (Volume Number - Chapter Number - Abbreviated Article Name - Figure Number).

Currently, 0 articles in 0 chapters are available, and Volume VI contains 0 records.

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“ These Phoenicians who came with Cadmus (of whom the Gephyraeans were a part) at their settlement in this country, among many other kinds of learning, brought into Hellas the alphabet, which had hitherto been unknown, as I think, to the Greeks; and presently as time went on the sound and the form of the letters were changed. At this time the Greeks that dwelt round them for the most part were Ionians; who, having been taught the letters by the Phoenicians, used them with some few changes of form, and in so doing gave to these characters (as indeed was but just, seeing that the Phoenicians had brought them into Hellas) the name of Phoenician. Thus also the Ionians have from ancient times called papyrus-sheets skins, because formerly for lack of papyrus they used the skins of sheep and goats; and even to this day there are many foreigners who write on such skins. „

Author:	Work:	Fragment(s):	Translator(s):	Collection & Publisher:
Herodotus (c. 484-425 BC)	Histories	V: 58	Alfred Denis Godley	Loeb Classical Library (LCL 119) © Harvard University Press, 1922

Editorial notes: The curator's and/or translator's notes are placed inside square brackets and indicated by the quartz colour. The intentionally omitted textual fragments are indicated by an ellipsis placed inside angle brackets. Direct mentions of the main subject are indicated by the azure colour. Direct mentions of snakes/serpents and their derivatives are indicated by the amber colour and complemented by references to the sources' original language and the words' lemmas. Important descriptive details are indicated by the malachite colour.

Source-Image(s): Volume VI source-images come from both internal and external resources (see below). Every attempt is made to maximize use of the curator's own photographic database. The rest of the source-images come from online resources and digital scans. In each case, the copyright holder’s permission was acquired and the courtesy gratefully acknowledged.

● Personal Photo Archive:
Alexei Alexeev	Curator	Ottawa, Canada	alexeialexeev@rogers.com

● Museums' Collections Online:
Bibliothèque Nationale de France	Cabinet des Médailles	Paris, France	www.medaillesetantiques.bnf.fr
British Museum	Main Collection	London, UK	www.britishmuseum.org
Kunsthistorisches Museum	Main Collection	Vienna, Austria	www.khm.at
Metropolitan Museum of Art	Main Collection	New York, USA	www.metmuseum.org
Musée du Louvre	Main Collection	Paris, France	www.louvre.fr
Museum of Fine Arts	Main Collection	Boston, USA	www.mfa.org
Staatliche Antikensamm-lungen und Glyptothek	Main Collection	Munich, Germany	www.antike-am-koenigsplatz.mwn.de
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin	Altes Museum: Antikensammlung; Neues Museum: Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Ägyptisches Museum, Papyrussammlung; Pergamonmuseum: Antikensammlung, Vorder-asiatisches Museum, Museum für Islamische Kunst; Bode Museum: Skulpturen-sammlung, Museum für Byzantinische Kunst; Museum für Asiatische Kunst	Berlin, Germany	www.smb.museum
State Hermitage Museum	Main Collection	St. Petersburg, Russia	www.hermitagemuseum.org

● Printed Publications:
LIMC	1981- 2009	Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). Volumes I-VIII. Indices. Supplementum.		Zürich	Artemis & Winkler Verlag

Note(s): (1) A minimalist approach is adopted for the descriptions of the bibliographic entries: in cases of multiple publishers or publishing locations, only the first entry from the full bibliographic description is listed. (2) In cases of modern reprints of important older works, the original publication is listed, with the information on the later edition(s), such as the date of reprint, publisher, and publishing location, placed inside parentheses. In cases of translated works, both the original and English versions are listed. (3) An idiosyncratic universal formatting of the English-language entries is employed: all nouns, pronouns, numerals, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and some categories of determiners are capitalized.

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